While many American cities are sinking under a wave of violence, the airwaves are, understandably, dominated by talk of racism … Continue reading “The economic dimension of prejudice”

The media have been excited by two American management academics, Leah Sheppard and Stefanie Johnson, who claim to find that highly … Continue reading “The economics of beauty: What do we know? What should we do?”

Bad data cannot produce good policy. This gets us to the heart of the problem with the mandated gender pay … Continue reading “Gender pay gaps are not the result of discrimination”

British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies … Continue reading “The pitfalls of ethnic pay gaps”

The Government’s consultation on ethnic pay gap monitoring closed a couple of weeks ago. We await the findings, but it … Continue reading “The unintended consequences of ethnic pay gap reporting”

The BBC has published a thought-provoking article by Rianna Croxford on pay gaps in academia, based on months of freedom of information … Continue reading “BBC study illustrates the pitfalls of ethnic pay gap reporting”

Last week, a statue of Millicent Fawcett has been erected in Westminster, to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of (some) women … Continue reading “Millicent Fawcett was a classical liberal. She would have abhorred today’s trendy victimhood feminism”

“I don’t want to grow up and not be paid the same as a man,” Charlotte Usher told the Victoria … Continue reading “Stop telling girls they’ll be victims, and focus on the success of working women”

The furore about the gender pay gap continues, with little economic analysis but a lot of emotion. The latest concern … Continue reading “Pay gaps don’t have to indicate discrimination. They can have perfectly harmless explanations”